“Books are the carriers of
civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb,
science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without
books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They
are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and
lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers,
magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman ( author of the The Guns of August )

UMass Lowell faculty, staff, friends, deans, and vice-chancellors were
asked a simple question:
"Would you please recommend 10 books?"
The recommenders are not
necessarily declaring their 10 books of all-time. Just 10
books they recommend reading. Fiction, Non-fiction, plays, essays,
short stories can be in the mix too.

David KalivasProfessor of History, Director of Commonwealth Honors
ProgramMiddlesex Community College

1. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11,
Lawrence Wright
2. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World
Economy, Joseph Stiglitz
3. The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle
over
Ameican History, Jill Lepore
4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
5. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path
in the Middle East, Rashid Khalidi
6. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, Bernard Lewis
7. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During
the Last Days of Rome
8. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, Morris Rossabi, Richard E.
Rubenstein
9. Hypatia of Alexandria, Maria Dzielska
10. The Places in Between (travel diary of a walk across Afghanistan,
2002), Rory Stewart

Steven Tello
Associate Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

1. The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
3.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by
Malcolm Gladwell
4. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation,
Steven Johnson
5.The World is Flat: A Brief History fo the Twenty-First Century by
Thomas L. Friedman
6. The Andrmeda Strain, Michael Chrichton
7. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
8. The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
9. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean
10.One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Partha Chowdhury
Professor of Physics
University of Massachusetts Lowell

1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
2. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
6. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
7. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
9. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury